Imagine the last time you won a conference championship was the last time you had a really QB. Then for almost 15 years you watch bad to mediocre QB play lead you to everything from losing to Kansas and Maryland to close to being good. You finally get a highly ranked QB and those just happen to be the years you go to two straight conference championships, winning one, and back to back CFP appearances.
After your first good year all four of your receiving targets and your top 3 running backs are gone. You run it back anyway with your 4th and 5th string backs, backup TE, three new receivers, and are a couple plays from playing for the NC. Imagine all that happening and some message board clown saying you, the one constant offensively year over year, had nothing to do with it. Imagine that same clown putting you on a tier with dudes who never won shit. Imagine throwing for 450 yards and 4 TDs in the conference championship game and being put on a tier with Simms.